Paal (Milk) Payasam

Ingredients

Milk – 5 cups

Raw Rice – ¼ cup

Sugar – 1 cup

Cardamom powder – 1 teaspoon

Soak the rice in water for half an hour. Put the milk in a heavy bottomed vessel and bring to boil. When it starts boiling, reduce the heat and add the soaked rice. Stir constantly till the rice cooks well and the milk quantity reduced to half of the original quantity. Add sugar and stir well. Allow to boil for few more minutes. Add cardamom powder and mix well.Note: Instead of adding raw rice, you can also add ½ cup cooked rice mashed well to the milk.
Also you can add one tablespoon sooji to the boiling milk to make the payasam.
Fried cashew Nuts and raisins can also be added.

This curry recipe is demonstrated by Chef Soundararajan in a TV show. With this basic curry, we can prepare number of dishes. For example, if we add cooked dhal, it will become “Dhal Curry”. Add cooked spinach and paneer. It will be “Spicy Palak Paneer”. Add cooked potato pieces and […]